Monday, April 11, 2011

John 1:18

No-one has seen God but God the one and only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

I and my Father are one, says Jesus later in this Gospel. How silly that some people assume that God cannot be known. Among the many reasons that we have Jesus in Scripture is to make God Known. Only Jesus has this information. If you want to know God, study Jesus. From him we know that God is love, long suffering, kind - with a special affection for children, but also witty, imaginative, creative, good with people, wise, and though sometimes angry, always compassionate, powerful, valient for the truth and a hater of evil; concerned for his friends while not being blind to their faults, capable, confident, charismatic; giving gifts to those who don't deserve it out of mercy and grace.

So ends the prologue to John's Gospel. This is the poem that I wrote as a summary:

But Jesus was not Jesus then, no moreThe Virgin Mary’s son; He was the Word,With God, the three in one, in rapt rapportHeld fast by love. The Holy Three conferredAnd made the sky, the earth, the sea; His handIn each creative act. The Spirit soaredAbove the seas before that great command,“Let there be light!” He was the Light; adoredBy angels. Darkness could not comprehend.Then there was life, of countless, teeming kind.In Him was life and His that life to lend;The light of men; for Man he had designedTo hold His image and when thus constrainedTo free from bondage those whom sin had stained.

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Born in Worcester, England 1943; school at Farnborough, Hampshire 1954-62; University 1962-7 and junior doctor posts 1967-74 in Bristol; Consultant Haematologist Bournemouth 1974-2003; Professor of Immunohaematology Southampton 1986 to present. Honorary Consultant Haematologist Kings College Hospital, London, 2004-present. After 5 years of working part time researching, writing, reviewing, editing, speaking, sitting on committees, advising, answering questions and thinking, I now think of myself as fully retired apart from my role as Editor in Chief of the medical journal Leukemia Research. I was awarded the Binet-Rai medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2002 and this has been my most sucessful area of research, but I have also made important contributions in the fields of apheresis, stem cell transplantation, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, antibody therapy, cytokine therapy and DNA vaccines. I was once mascot for Aldershot Town Football. Club. Married to Diane for 44 years. Four children, Karen, Richard, Angela and David.